cavalry
马队,马场,马车,马术
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plural cav·al·ries.
- : Military. the part of a military force composed of troops that serve on horseback.mounted soldiers collectively.the motorized, armored units of a military force organized for maximum mobility.
- : horsemen, horses, etc., collectively.
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As for the cadre of grooms into whose care the show’s 335 horses were entrusted, it too had been decimated, for during World War I, a horse cavalry was still a vital component of the forces.
Immune systems are like sentinels, patrolling the body for invaders and calling in the cavalry once a pathogen is detected.
It’s a far cry from the government’s optimism in early December, when the arrival of vaccines was described as the “scientific cavalry” coming to the rescue.
The Army has museums dedicated to the infantry, the cavalry and the artillery.
Because Forrest enlisted as a private and fought in the often-neglected western theater, his skills as a cavalry commander were overlooked for much of the war.
A newsagent further down on Nathan Road told The Daily Beast that he recognized a number of retired cops in the cavalry charge.
A similar pattern occurred when metal swords, armor, cavalry charges and dense infantry ranks developed.
He fought with the Soviets, then led the cavalry and B-52 bombers to rout the Taliban.
Dostum famously led Uzbek cavalry charges supported by U.S. B-52 bombers to defeat the Taliban.
They rode as far as Tours on the Loire until stopped by the French cavalry of Charles Martel.
In this position, the line of cavalry formed the chord of the arc described by the river, and occupied by us.